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(Amendment  3  to  R.  A.  I.  Order  292) 


U.S.  DEPOSITORY 


United  States  Department  of  Agriculture 

BUREAU  OF  ANIMAL  INDUSTRY 


AMENDMENT  3  TO  B.  A.  I.  ORDER  292  (REGULATIONS  GOVERNING 
THE  INTERSTATE  MOVEMENT  OF  LIVESTOCK)  MODIFYING  REGU- 
LATION 2 

(Effective  on   and  after  September  1,    1926) 


United  States  Department  of  Agriculture, 

(  )ittce  of  the  Secretary. 

ruder  the  authority  conferred  by  law  upon  the  Secretary  of 
Agriculture  by  the  acts  of  Congress  approved  May  29,  1884  (23 
Suit.  31),  as  amended  by  the  act  approved  June  28,  1926  (Public 
No.  436,  69th  Cong.).  February  2,  1903  (32  Stat.  791),  and  March 
3,  1905  (33  Stat.  1264),  as  amended  by  the  act  approved  March  4, 
1913  (37  Stat.  828,  831),  the  regulations  governing  the  interstate 
movement  of  livestock,  issued  under  date  of  February  25,  1925. 
and  effective  May  1,  1925  (B.  A.  I.  Order  292),  as  amended,  are 
hereby  further  amended  in  the  following  particulars : 

Paragraph  1,  section  2,  liegulation  2,  is  revoked  and  in  lieu 
thereof  the  following  paragraph,  to  be  designated  as  paragraph  1, 
is  substituted : 

Section  2,  Paragraph  1.  Interstate  shipments  of  southern  cattle  may  be 
made  at  any  time  by  rail  or  boat  for  immediate  slaughter,  provided  that 
within  0  days  prior  to  shipment  the  cattle  have  been  dipped  once  in  a  per- 
mitted dip,  under  the  supervision  of  an  inspector  of  the  State  of  origin  or  a 
bureau  inspector ;  that  the  cattle  are  accompanied  by  a  statement  of  such 
dipping ;  that  the  proper  official  of  the  State,  Territory,  or  the  District  of 
Columbia  to  which  the  shipment  is  destined  has  granted  permission  for  the 
acceptance  and  handling  of  southern  cattle;  and  that  in  their  movement  the 
provisions  contained  in  sections  2,  3,  and  12  and  paragraph  4  (d)  of  section  4, 
hereinafter  set  out  in  this  regulation,  are  strictly  observed  and  complied  with. 

Subparagraph  (d)  of  paragraph  4,  section  4,  Regulation  2,  is  re- 
voked and  in  lieu  thereof  the  following  subparagraph,  to  be  desig- 
nated as  (d),  is  substituted: 

(d)  The  dipping  of  cattle  for  interstate  movement  shall  he  done  only  in  a 
permitted  dip  and  at  places  where  propel  facilities  are  provided  for  dipping 
and  for  handling  the  cattle  in  a  manner  to  prevent  exposure  to  Infection  after 
the  final  dipping.  Cattle  which  are  to  he  dipped  shall  he  given  an  oppor- 
tunity to  drink  snllicieni  water  to  quench  their  thirst  prior  to  dipping,  be 
carefully  handled,  and  not  dipped  while  they  arc  in  a  healed  or  exhausted 
condition.  When  the  cattle  are  to  be  dipped  under  bureau  supervision  the 
owner  of  the  cattle,  offered  for  Interstate  shipment,  or  hifl  agenl  duly  author- 
ized thereto,  shall  first  execute  and  deliver  to  a  bureau  Inspector  an  applica- 
tion for  Inspection  and  supervised  dipping  wherein  he  shall  agree  to  waive 
all  claims  against  the  United  States  for  any  l«.-s  or  damage  to  said  cattle 
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occasioned  by  or  resulting  from  dipping  or  other  treatment  hereunder,  or  re- 
sulting from  any  subsequent  treatment  prior  to  their  interstate  shipment,  or 
resulting  from  the  fact  that  they  are  later  found  to  be  still  tick  infested,  and 
also  for  all  subsequent  loss  or  damage  to  any  other  cattle  in  the  possession 
or  control  of  such  owner  which  may  come  into  contact  with  the  cattle  so 
dipped  or  treated.  The  dip  at  present  permitted  by  the  department  is  an 
arsenical  solution  which  shall  at  all  times  show  a  minimum  of  twenty-two 
hundredths  per  cent  of  arsenious  oxid  in  solution,  as  indicated  by  the  bureau 
field  test  for  the  arsenical  dipping  bath.  A  proprietary  brand  of  arsenical 
solution  may  be  used  in  official  dipping  only  after  specific  permission  therefor 
has  been  issued  by  the  bureau ;  and  no  dip  will  hereafter  be  given  department 
permission  for  official  use  in  the  dipping  of  cattle  for  ticks  unless  it  has  been 
shown  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  bureau  (1)  that  the  strength  of  the  bath 
prepared  therefrom  may  be  satisfactorily  determined  in  the  field  by  a  prac- 
tical portable  testing  outfit;  (2)  that  under  actual  field  conditions'  the  dipping 
of  cattle  in  a  bath  of  definite  strength  will  effectually  eradicate  ticks  without 
injury  to  the  animals  dipped. 

This  amendment  which,  for  the  purpose  of  identification,  is  desig- 
nated as  Amendment  3  to  B.  A.  I.  Order  292,  shall  be  effective  on 
and  after  September  1,  1926. 

Done  at  Washington  this  17th  day  of  July,  1926. 
Witness  my  hand  and  the  seal  of  the  Department  of 
Agriculture. 

W.  M.  Jardine, 
Secretary  of  Agriculture. 


WASHINGTON  :  GOVERN  MEN'T  PRINTING  OFFICE  :  1926 


